Right After Earnings, The Intelligent Options Trade in Charles River Laboratories International Inc

Charles River Laboratories International Inc (NYSE:CRL) : Right After Earnings, The Intelligent Options Trade

Date Published:
2018-02-9

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LEDEThis is a simple option trade that starts two-days after Charles River Laboratories International Inc (NYSE:CRL) earnings and lasts for the one month to follow, that has been a winner for 3 straight years.

Charles River Laboratories International Inc (NYSE:CRL) Earnings
While the mainstream media likes to focus on the actual earnings move for a stock, that's the distraction when it comes to the option market.

For Charles River Laboratories International Inc, irrespective of whether the earnings move was up or down, if we waited two calendar days after the stock move, and then sold a one-month out of the money put spread, the results were simply staggering. We use two-days to allow the stock to fully reach equilibrium post earnings.

We can examine this intelligent approach, objectively, with a custom option back-test. Here is our earnings set-up:

Rules
* Open short put spread 2-days after earnings
* Close short put spread 29 days later
* Use the 30-day options

RETURNS
If we sold this 30/10 delta out-of-the-money put spread in Charles River Laboratories International Inc (NYSE:CRL) over the last three-years but only held it after earnings we get these results:

Track this trade idea. Get alerted for ticker `CRL` 2 days after earnings

We see a 34.8% return, testing this over the last 12 earnings dates in Charles River Laboratories International Inc. That's a total of just 336 days (28 days for each earnings date, over 12 earnings dates).

We can also see that this strategy hasn't been a winner all the time, rather it has won 10 times and lost 2 times, for a 83% win-rate.

Setting Expectations
While this strategy had an overall return of 34.8%, the trade details keep us in bounds with expectations:
➡ The average percent return per trade was 4.47% in just 27-calendar days.

MORE TO IT THAN MEETS THE EYE
While a short put spread is a strategy that gains profits if the underlying stock "doesn't go down a lot," there is more to this with Charles River Laboratories International Inc.

What we're after with this approach is identifying companies that make their large stock move the day after earnings -- whether that's up or down -- and after that, find a sense of equilibrium in the stock price for the next month. This is what we find in Charles River Laboratories International Inc (NYSE:CRL) .

WHAT HAPPENED
Traders that have a plan guess less. This is how people profit from the option market. Take a reasonable idea or hypothesis, test it, and apply lessons learned.

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